Huntsville gazette., 1887-04-16

aud all th3 air is filled with perfume. 4
such time we are called upon TO conside
the subject Of our resurrection. At thf
time too We are prepared for this occaeioi
from another stand peint As look owe
this vast audience 500 foes whose cheek
are scarcely dry from the tears which deati
made you weep. The signs of mourning
are th Ok among you. This tells me ths
death has invaded your iamiiv circles, and
borne some jewel from yonr hearth-stous.
Just there perchel on your banners | see
red. white and blue, but the sign of death
appears there also, Grape on your banners
Grape on your doors i! and yo1 are clad in
mourning With these signs OF death all
around. how enchanting to think OF g.
direction day.
Come friends and relations lets join hearts
and hands
/ The voice Of the turtle is heard in our
land
Lets all walk together and follow the
4 I'd msrch to the place where Redemption u
II found.
The place is in Jesus to him if youll go
You'll tiud there re 1emption from sin
and from woe.
1t has been affirmed by some that the
Old Testament fathers only looked for .
transitiory promise and the Old Test
ament Scriptures. But every book and al.
most every page TEEN with testimony that
they lived in hope Of glorious immor-
taliity. A few instances. When the un.
believing saduceess came to Christ, with the
case OF the woenan who had seven hus-
bands. Els reply to them was ''Ys do
ere not knowing the scriptures for that
the dead WAS raised up even Moses WAS
showed 1t the burning bush. when God
proclaimed himself ss the God of Abraham,
and Of Isaac and of Jacob. He is not
God of the dead but of the living. Turns
ing to the chronology We find that these
fathers had been dead about three hum
dred years But God speaking of them
uses net the past hut the present tsnse--I (
am the God of Abraham, and of Isaac and
Of Jacob, " much as to say, through dead
for three hundred years they still live in
my presence unto God there are no dead !
Another striking instance il that found
in JOB. 19 75. Bereaved sffi icted, q, re- !
preached he pines away at the gates of
death, His friends tell him to give up all
hope, that he will never more ,ee good that /
death ends all. even his wife said to him,
curse God and die. But in the strength !
Of his faith rising superior to doubt be e1
claims 80, that my words were Low
written o. that they were printed 10 .
book That they were craven with an iroa
pen and lead in the rock forever for
know that my redeemer liveth and that
he shall stand at the latter day upon the
the earth. and though and after worms
destroy this body yet in any flesh shall
l see God. Why did he want his words
engrsvsn in stone? Surely that coming
generations till the end of time might know
thet he believed in y resurrection
Isaiah prophssied for Israel during Il e:r
captivity 1t was very natural for them in /
this condition to become discouraged, to
cry out all hope is gone we will never more
see good But tsrish bauishes their ies-
pair with the words Thy dead men 81 all
1--we, together With my dead bod, stall they
rise So far was he from looking for 4
transittry promise that he preached i'm
mortality for the dead. /
But the hope of our Resurr .ction depends
upon that of Chri,t. If Christ be not ris.L
then is our preaching vAin our faith il al /
80 vain and we are yet in our sins. Here
showed that the Resurrection of Christ rests ,
upon testimony, snch As would be valid in
any court Of law Conclusion.
Addressing , y self to you brothers aud I
sisters of the Immaculate fraternity, there
are many things praise worthy of your |
noble order few of which will mention; |
Principle 18th only thing worth living
for or worth dying for. The chief corner
stone Of Immscnlatism is belief in the |
ex stence OF God. believe this is the nrst !,
requisite OF every person who seeks nnion |
with your order exhort you to sand by !
this principle, for there are plen'y Of men |,
ia this country who do not believe. or pro. /
fess to believe in the existence If God. | /.
see also that it is yonr custom annually to
o o,servs Easter Service. thus proclaimiue to |
the world that sou believe in resurrection
in Immortality. in lie beyond the grave
Time would fail me to speak Of your many
virtues such a. fidelity love aud CHARITY
virtues witnout which no individual can be
n ,bie, no home eau be happy Without
the virtues no organization can long exist
The statement that ons hundred and fif-
ty thousAad dollars since the Organization